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What Almost Was Cover options that weren’t to be for WY Issue 12

One of the best things we get to do here is fight over covers. Every time we make an issue we get collect all sorts of amazing imagery and art and writing and the hardest part is finding the one single thing that represents the three months that it will encase. This issue was no different as…

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Watch “No Breakfast” A surf movie by a snowboarder starring Dane Reynolds, Mikey Wright and more

Bryan Fox wasn’t someone we were all too familiar with even a month ago. But since then, we’ve gone to Oregon with him, featured him and his incredibley on-point opinions and great photographs in What Youth Issue 12, and then we went to France with him…and now he’s making surf movies. The dude is on…

Off Beat: Nate Tyler Episode 025: Bad trick names, burritos and energy drinking

You can hear the pitter patter of French rain in the background. Which should be enough to send you to Expedia for some France. But anyway, we probed (can we say probed?) Nate Tyler with some Off Beat questions. Which is always fun. Watch our Fairly Normal with Nate Tyler here:

Listen to Walter Featuring members of Meatbodies, Ducktails, and SadGirl

If there weren’t enough fuzzy garage quasi-proto psychedelic bands popping up in the musical stratosphere already, let me introduce you to Walter, a new trio from LA starring Patrick Nolan (Meatbodies), Ross Chait (Ducktails), and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). Check out their first video for “Ice Cream” below. Walter reminds me of that era of Ty…

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Watch Greyson Fletcher’s new part “In Perdition” is a very important moment in the Fletcher story

There are so many reasons this Greyson Fletcher part matters. First: he’s a Fletcher. Your life should always halt and provide its full and utmost attention when anyone of the Fletchers do anything. Whether it be dad, uncle, grandpa, grandma. You pay attention. Today is no different, and marks a landmark moment for Greyson Fletcher…

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Deanna Templeton, Vancouver, circa late ’90s Back Den 060

“behind every great man stands a great woman, and deanna templeton is more than great. her photos “all shot on film” are so real — her shots traveling the world to the nudes in her swimming pool. i’ve been friends with her for a long time and i admire her work and her friendship. check it…

Office Space: Sal Barbier Skate royalty on our mini ramp

Sal Barbier came by to skate other day. You’ll remember Sal from being the dude with the best selling skate shoe ever. Or maybe for the day he took us and his jump ramp to the streets of Santa Monica. He’s truly an all-around skateboarding legend and someone we like having around. Not to mention the way…

The Black Lips brought the swamp And their signature soul blues punk sermon to CA

Punk is not dead. It lives in Atlanta. And the proof was right there at The Black Lips show, where any and all sense of social order was buried under a blanket of sweaty crowd surfing teenagers. The Observatory in Orange County was humid and hardly civil last week when the dirty south punks ended…